Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen claimed that the moment his teammate Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, it brought about a “spiritual awakening” within himself.
Allen appeared on the Kyle Brandt’s Basement podcast on Tuesday to discuss his recent faith journey at length. The quarterback admitted he was raised Methodist as a child but was always more interested in football and, in his words, wasn’t “the most devoted Christ follower.”
Following Hamlin’s medical transport from the field during his team’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Allen claimed the incident struck him and his teammates deeply. Bills head coach Sean McDermott said a prayer for Hamlin with the team.
“To hear some of these stories and feelings from these guys to be going through this situation, it’s been really cool to see that unfold in front of us. Again I can’t chalk it down to anything else but a higher power,” Allen said. “I’m extremely moved. I don’t really know — I don’t have the words to explain it.”
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This comes after Allen described Nyheim Hines’s 96-yard touchdown on a kickoff return during the game that followed Hamlin’s incident as “some sort of miracle” in a press conference afterward.
“I was just going around my team, saying, ‘God is real,'” Allen said. “You can’t draw that one up — write that one up any better.”
Hamlin also cited a higher power in his reaction to his team’s win against the New England Patriots. It had been three years and three months since the team last scored off a kickoff return.
“God Behind All This No Coincidence,” Hamlin responded online.
Hamlin was discharged from a Buffalo, New York, hospital on Wednesday.
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At 26 years old, Allen has scored 138 touchdowns, moving the football over 18,000 yards since he began playing for the NFL in 2018.
